Describing Random World Locations with Geoguessr

GeoGuessr is a website where you are thrown into a random spot in the world on Google Maps streetview, and you have to try and guess where you are.

It’s fun to play just by itself, to see how close you can get, but it’s even more fun when you put a spin on it: writing a description of each random area you’re given.

During the last stream, Abbey and I played a game of GeoGuessr with chat. Just like when we’ve done this before, we were given five random locations anywhere in the world, and we had to guess where they were.

And for each one, we had to write a short description of the area, trying to make it as vivid and detailed as possible.

Here’s what we/chat came up with for each:

Location #1: Newfoundland

The Anchor Hotel Restaurant by the lake was so small and squat it looked like it’d been squished by the bright open sky, unblemished by skyscrapers, planes, or any other sort of those newfangled city-folk thingamobobs. The air was crisp and oceany like a freshly-cracked-open crab, and the only honking that residents had to deal with was from the gulls.
—Me

The church was a simple thing, a classic Protestant design. Long house, front steeple topped by a metal cross, tall arch windows. A small graveyard covered its acres, holding a history of the small town’s inhabitants. The worshippers once ensconced in a building not unlike an upturned ark, now cocooned in wooden caskets and buried under holy ground.
—Bobicus

The anchor hotel restaurant, a one-stop shop as blue as a marlin, reeked of brine and fish.
—Joe_g89

Swirling ocean blue, that sunny fair teal hue, rested within the short shoreline; an awfully quiet view. The Anchor Hotel restaurant offered company and rest, to locals, weary travellers, a place for every guest. A small church in classic style, of purest soul and purest white, sits quaint among the rolling green, with hilly trees; a picturesque scene.
—RealSayakaMaizono

Location #2: Greenland

The building was like a long caterpillar with window-eyes running down its sides. Still and silent, it had been dipped in a bucket of neon-blue paint, then laid to dry its unnatural color under the cloudy sky. All around, scaffolds and scraps of wood lay against it, waiting to become the cocoon that would finally metamorphosize it into an actual home for families.
—Me

Strange colored snakes of vivid buildings surround us like prey, and a boat sits before us as if wanting to sail out over the sea of grass.
—Abbey

A bold smack of red in a backdrop of blue and gray, the scarlet building stuck out amongst the army of faded cobalt that surrounded it.
—Dragonflyghter

There was a desolation of spirit here. Long, haphazardly-placed buildings, painted a weak coat of blue that somehow seemed duller than the grey blue sky that sank down over the land. Scaffolds, materials, and broken ground littered the area. A place built for function. A place built for work.
—Bobicus

Location #3: Brazil

The colorful umbrellas didn’t even look out of place on the lush tropical beach. Like bright fruits, blossomed from the white sand, ready to be plucked by the vacationers sitting in their shade. The thick, flat leaves taller than most trees rustled in the refreshing breeze, a juicy respite from the searing sun above.
—Me

As hard as Mother Nature was trying to bake us into human jerky, there was relief to be found in the form of shady umbrellas and a thatched hut nestled along the forest line at the edge of the beach.
—Abbey

A secret hidden by daylight, freckled with palm trees.
—artie_safari

Salty sea water danced the hula through the air. Giant bumpy rocks lay the land like mines, knobby like scars upon the earth. Waves crashed against the lumpy rocks, foaming up like carbonated water.
—Joe_g89

Dotted jagged rocks hold back the coming tide, while water licks fine sand from side to side. Not course, rough or irritating – that inviting ocean breeze, host to creating. A miniature mountain of trees and leaves towers over those lucky thieves – who snatch delight, before the coming chill of night.
—RealSayakaMaizono

Saline fills my lungs as I breathe it in. All at once, my heart pounds in time with the gentle waves and I can feel my muscles loosen.
—Dragonflyghter

Location #4: Alaska

The Cosmic Kitchen cafe promised three different hearty meals: breakfast, lunch, and Mexican. But from the smell of processed cheese and rubber eggs wafting off its patio bought straight from Home Depot, it likely only had one thing on the menu — plastic.
—Me

The Cosmic Kit Kitchen’s parking lot had little space. But the food was out of this world.
—Joe_g89

The crossing roads Kachemak and Pioneer held the history of this place, a lush forest of old-growth evergreens once populated by local tribes. Pioneers cut it all down, paving the way for a future of strip malls, all selling a frontier aesthetic. Art galleries and indigenous flags clung to a once dynamic past. The future invaded all the same; Radio Shacks and Mexican restaurants made their home.
—bobicus

In classic American style, small independent stores, spread out across a mile, an endless source of quick pit stops, to make the trip worthwhile. A comfortable amount of trees keep out that crushing corporate sleaze – not just another soulless megastore – it’s small town America, galore!
—RealSayakaMaizono

Evergreens and bushes invaded the land, breaking through the concrete un-apologetically and slowly surrounding the street signs. Usually nature exists subsided to humans, but this town seemed to be a weird exception where humans lived subsided to nature.
—LilacSkies

Location #5: Kuala Lumpur

The hand of smog descended from the dark clouds above, grasping onto the lone trees and choking them tight. The few plants that had managed to survive for long enough in this acid-ash cloud to grow above the scraggly bushes were now finally coated in a thin layer of death. In the distance, cranes dressed naked skyscrapers, holding the promise of much more to come.
—Me

Mother Nature was angry at the humans she had laid upon her Earth for scraping her skies with their buildings.
—JppOwner

Half-finished buildings emerged from the shadows in the distance, the city under constant construction with no progress ever being made.
—artie_safari

A dense fog swarmed life. It blotted office buildings to faded memories and erased the clouds with gloom.
—Joe_g89

Barren, foggy, flat, and gray. A dotted line of rocks, sized as though they were men curled upon themselves, separated the highway from a landscape of short grass and scattered rocks. There seemed little need for a barrier, the asphalt beneath one’s tires promised more succor. Yet large rectangular buildings in the distance claimed the land, as featureless and imposing as the place itself.
—bobicus

Deathly, hallowing clouds coat the skies – the crooked city’s guise. Above this empty stretch of dead highway, cars pass, and vanish into the void of gray. The distant skyscrapers look on with apathetic eyes, never again will towering steel greet the sunrise.
—RealSayakaMaizono

If you want to join us and help write a story by trolling in chat, or share your own writing for feedback, then we’d love to have you join us on Twitch.

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Hope to see you next time, friend!

Featured image: Pakutaso